bween right and wrong. The Creator does not say which way 
in shall choose; He leaves it for him to choose and rewards 
d punislies him according to his choice. Animals have no 
owledge of good and evil, nor power to choose; they do the 
11 of man because they are obliged to. As man has this 
owledge and power he must do the will of the Creator from 
Dice, and acknowledge the Creator his master from choice. 

it is impossible for man to acknowledge anything his master 
im choice without loving that object more than himself he 
ist love his Creator with all his being. How does the Creator 
luire man to feel toward his neighbor? Man desires horses to 

peaceable and not agitate each other so that they can be 
i^ful to him. If any try to light those around them he does not 
,nt the others to fight back, but to be quiet and let him take 
re of the unruly ones. There is no reason to suppose that the 
sator requires less of man. He requires man to love his neigh- 
r as himself because he cannot live in peace unless he does, 
d if any neighbor takes it upon himself to illtreat another, 
it one is not to illtreat in return and destroy the usefulness 
both to their Creator, but to keep his peace and maintain his 
ationship to his Creator and let Him take care of the disobe- 
!nt one. So it is clear that the first duty of man is to love his 
jator with all his being; the next is to love his neighbor as 
nself, and the next is not to render evil for evil. So the spirit 
the Creator teaches what Christ taught. Then see the effect 
Christ's teaching upjn man. All the good there is in the 
rid has come from it. See the difference between those who 
ve had the benefit of it and those who have not. It is the 
erunner of all progress. See the truth of it verified at the 
ith of His followers. The expression in their countenance is 
mnd the power of man to describe; only those who have seen 
have seen the most wonderful work of God. It is not seen in 
5 countenance of all who die professing to believe in Christ, 
b it is seen in some, and if He is not Divine, how does it come? 
)f these two ways of thinking about the Bible, which is right? 
ere is a law that decides it, namely: There are two kinds of all 
ated things, a good and bad. Every good thing has its oppo- 
e in a bad thing of the same kind and they are enemies, 
ery good plant that is useful to man has its opposite in weeds 
It are an abomination to man; and every good animal that is 
iful to man has its opposite in beasts of prey that are an 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 



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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



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The Food That G-od Intends 

For Man. 



The kej' to health is for man to realize how delicate his organization is. 



"Therefore I say unto you take no thought for your life what ye shall eat or 
what ye shall drink. Is not life more than meat?" Matthew 6 26. 



What Christ is to the soul this is to the body and the conditions of receiving 
life are alike in each, namely, to believe and put in practice. 



BY 



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OLIVER WM. MORLEY. 

WOODLAND, MICH. 



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Entered according to Act of Congress 
in the j'ear 1891, 

BY Oliver Wm. Morley, 

In the office of the Librarian of Con- 
gress at Washington. 



INDEX. 



Part Fikst. Explains the law which governs the selection 

of food and gives reasons why meat is unadapted. . . . 9-15 

Part Second. Traces the different kinds of food out and 

arranges them in classes l(i-17 

Part Third. Explains the difference in the classes and 

shows what part of each kind of food is suitable 18-20 

Part Fottrth. Shows the bad effect that some articles 

which are commonly used for food have on the system 21-24 

Part Fifth. Shows httw food should be prepared 25-27 

Part Sixth. Shows how food should be used 28-31 

Part Seventh. Shows the effect of this system 32 

Notes 33 

Appendix. 

Caked udder, how cured 34-36 

Hog cholera, possible cause of 36-3fl 

Hogs. Why they require feed prepared different 

from other domestic animals 39 

Why all animals should have grain 39-28 

Salt for animals .39-40-41 

Consumption, how caused in cattle 40-41 

Texas fever, possible cause of 41-42 



Pf^EFACE. 



A number of years ago some authors claimed that analysis 
demonstrates that the human system requires certain elements 
to sustain its different parts; that these elements are not found 
in the right proportion in such articles as sugar, butter, lard, 
etc ; that such articles contain only what is necessary to furnish 
heat and fat; that the great mortality in the human race is 
caused by using too much heat and fat producing food to the 
exclusion of food that is necessary to produce muscle; that in 
order to get what is necessary man should use such things as lean 
meat, flsh, the whole of wheat, beans, cheese, peas, etc., that 
contain the elements necessary for the muscle and brain; that it 
makes no difference where man gets these elements, if they are 
in the right proportion; that it is right to use sugar, butter, lard, 
etc., to produce the necessary heat and fat if lean meat, fish, the 
whole of wheat, cheese and articles that contain more than the 
requisite proportion of muscle-producing elements are used. All 
authors did not agree in the last clause. Some claimed that the 
necessary elements for the muscle could be imparted to the system 
by raising bread with an acid that contained it, while others 
claimed that it is not right to use food in a disorganized state: 
that (what they considered natural food) lean meat, fish, the 
whole of wheat, etc., should be used. As the latter claim 
appeared to be more reasonable, that was the one that w^as 
the most generally adopted. Practice proved both claims to be 
untrue. There were not so many fevers, because dispensing with 
an undue quantity of heat-producing food removed the cause of 
them; but indigestion, constipation, ulcers in the stomach, ner- 
vous diseases, etc., prevailed to a greater extent than before. 
What was made by escaping from one kind of disease was offset 
by the unusual prevalence of others, and man fell back into the 
old way of thinking, that to suffer more or less from disease is 
the inevitable consequence of being a human being. 



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Some later authors claim that most diseases are caused by a 
bacilli that is transmitted from one person to another, and that 
the way to prevent disease is to prevent the transmission of 
bacilli. Other authors claim that the bacilli is caused by disease, 
not the cause of it, and that the bacilli has no power to enter 
a healthy body that is surrounded by circumstances not calculated 
to engender disease and cause disease. 

Some imagine that all disease is caused by sin, and in their 
zeal for good morals claim that all man has to do to be healthy 
is to keep the body in subjection and make such effort of body 
and mind as is known to promote health. But they are mistaken. 
Vast numbers who keep their bodies perfectly subjugated and 
pratice all the known ways of promoting health, even children 
who are not old enough to know evil and who cannot keep from 
performing physical duties because growth to them is what labor 
is to adults, die prematurely, while some whose lives are full of 
evil live to old age. 

It went the rounds of the papers a few years ago that one of 
the most celebrated phj^sicians of the age declared that the 
science of medicine is a failure, that it cannot be relied upon. 
It is a failure because it undertakes to cure the disease without 
removing the cause. 

The cause of disease in man is the use of food that is not in- 
tended for nor adapted to him. 

The question that comes after this statement is: How is it 
that man can use food that is so unadapted as to cause disease 
without being aware of if? The answer is : The human system 
is created with certain instincts, tastes and powers of assimila- 
tion, and in order to thrive must haA^e food that agrees with them. 
It is impossible to determine by analysis what these instincts de- 
mand. Taste can be educated to like things that are not adapted, 
but the power of assimilation cannot, and there is constant 
trouble when it is violated. From having used this food from 
childhood man is unconscious of this trouble, and when it 
culminates in sickness he is unaware of the cause. If man dis- 
penses with food that is unadapted until its effect is gone from 
the system and then uses it, its unfitness is quickly realized by 
the disturbance it causes. If man dispenses with food that Is 
adapted for any length of time it does not cause disturbance when 
used again: on the contrary, it is more agreeable than if used 
every day. 



The tirst lesson tor man to learn in order to be restored to a 
natural state and health is, that it is possible for his system to 
take in and pass off sufHcient unnatural food to destroy it without 
his beins aware that he is injuring himself. 

This work shows by a law of creation (nature) as unerring as 
the law of gravitation, what natural food is. 

The natural food of man is not limited to a few tasteless or 
disagreeable and unnourishing things, as is the case where people 
go through what is commonly called a course of dieting. God 
has not created necessities and virtuous desires in man without 
creating what is necessary to satisfy them. 

With due understanding and judgment exercised in the prac- 
tice of this system, man's health is assured. 

I am unable to describe the gratitude that 1 feel in realizing 
that God has used me as an instrument to develop these truths, 
which I hope are the dawning of the brightest physical era the 
world has ever known. 

The Althok. 



PRHT Flf^ST. 



The law of nature, which shows the way to clelermine the 
natural food for man, is demonstrated as follows: 

Fruit is one kind of food that is natural for man. and animal 
and vegetable food that is natural for man ^jrows in the way of 
and is the counterpart of fruit. 

All kinds of fruit food is either the fruit or seed of a stalk or 
tree, or is intended by nature to nourish a stalk when it grows: 
in no case is the stalk or tree used. 

As meat is the animal (neither the fruit or seed of an aninml,) 
it is not natural food. 

Man's necessity for meat has long been questioned l)y a great 
many, and a great many have refrained more or less from its use: 
but the world at large considers it necessary to enable man to 
endure physically and mentally what is required: and some have 
given the following reasons for thinking so: 

1. As man's teeth are not like animals' that eat flesh, whose 
teeth are set apart and sharp at the point to enable them to tear 
the flesh, nor like animals that eat stalks, whose teeth are close 
together to enable them to grind the stalks fine, it follows that 
man requires food that both kind of animals do. 2. Man's stom- 
ach is not large enough to hold enough other food to give him 
strength to endure all that is required: as meat is more concen- 
trated than other food, it is the best. 3. It is easier digested. 
4. Eeople have lived to a very old age who have used meat all the 
time without having been sick. 5. According to the Bible, God 
gives man meat, which is evidence that it is necessary and good. 

The following are answers to these reasons: 1. It is wrong to 
conclude that as man's teeth are unlike either kind of animals" 
he requires food that both kind of animals do. The correct con- 
clusion is, as ma's teeth are unlike either kind of animal's he 
does not require food that either kind of animals do. If man 
requires food that both kind of animals do he must require stalks 



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as one kind of animals require them. Man can chew food that 
is natural for him as easy as animals can chew food that is 
natural for them, but it is unnatural and difficult for man to 
chew meat. 2. God has not created the stomach incapable of 
holding' sufficient food that he has created for it. Man has never 
used wholly the food intended for him, consequently he is unable 
to form a correct conclusion. Meat is not so concentrated and 
does not contain as much nourishment to the pound as the 
animal food that is intended for man. Tlie main tiling that is 
overlooked by those who reason in this way is, it is unadapted to 
the human system; it will not assimilate and consequently works 
injury. Man's undepraved taste and power of assimilation is no 
more like the taste and power of assimilation of dogs than he is 
constructed in any other way like them. The greater strength 
meat gives is imaginary; being unnatural, the system makes 
exertion to get rid of it; this causes a stimulus which is imagined 
to be strength. When natural food is used the difference between 
real and imaginary strength is manifest. If meat is not used 
and natural food is until the effect of meat is gone from the sj^s- 
tem, the muscles become solid and strong (they do not have the 
dried- up hardness that they have when meat is used) and the 
whole system has life and energy that it is impossible to have 
when meat is used. If a piece of beef-steak is eaten then it is so 
difficult to chew, compared with what has been used, that that 
alone is evidence that it is unnatural, and the derangement it 
causes is irrefutable evidence. If any food that is natural is dis- 
pensed with, no matter how long, it does not cause derangement 
when first used again; instead, it is more agreeable than if used 
every day. 3. It does not follow that it is better than other food 
because it digests quicker. On the contrary, it is better for food 
to be as long in digesting as nature requires, so that there shall 
be strength for a proper number of hours between each time of 
taking food. If food is digested and the strength is passed off 
unnaturally quick, the strength is too great on the start and too 
little at the end; it is better to be more even. While the digestive 
power of the dog is greater than that of man, the dog does not 
digest food that is natural for him any quicker than man digests 
food that is natural for him. Strong elements do not always act 
quickly. The digestive power of the serpent is stronger and 
slower than that of a dog; he digests bones. The fact that man 
digests meat quicker than he does food that is unquestionably 



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natural and Quicker than a do^, whose natural food it is, is evi- 
dence that it is not natural food for man. The quickness, in this 
case, is not evidence of strength, but weakness. 4. People have 
lived to a very old age without having heen sick who were great 
drinkers, and some have lived long who were great smokers. 
There is no way of knowing how much longer they would have 
lived if they had been more temperate. Such people seldom per- 
form hard physical labor; they use all their strength in those 
habits. Besides, such cases are exceptional. The strength of 
constitution in such cases is generally due to the non-use of meat 
by the ancestors. In Ireland, Germany, and other parts of the 
old world, the niiddle and poorer classes are not able to have 
meat, butter and sugar only occasionally, as a luxury, as they 
deem it; they have to sell such things to get what is more neces- 
sary. Consequently, although they do not live wholly on natural 
food and are not as physically perfect as they might be, they are 
the healthiest and strongest people in the world. The children 
of those who immigrate to this country, where the middle classes 
have all the meat and luxuries (in the way of food) they want, 
deteriorate and are soon far from being as healthy as their ances- 
tors. Pugilists say there is nothing like meat. But where do 
they get their great muscle and power of endurance? From their 
ancestors in the old country, who used very little meat. Pugilists 
do not realize this; meat stimulates them and makes them feel 
strong for the time being, and they think that meat is what nuide 
them. But it is not. Their children do not have the muscle and 
power of endurance that they have, which they would if meat is 
what makes it. 5. There are two ways of answering what the 
Bible says; one questions the divinity of the Bible, the other sus- 
tains it. The first way is as follows: "How is it that God gives 
man meat for food when He knows that he is created so that it 
injures him and causes great mortality in the human race? How 
i» it that Christ used meat when he knew (if he was God) that it 
injures man and causes the diseases that he cured. If He had 
been God would He not have warned man and forbade him using 
it? And how is it that God gives man bond men to be his posses- 
sion forever? He wrote this law in the twenty-fifth chapter of 
Leviticus and nowhere after annulled it. On the contrary, bond 
men are spoken of L "where after that in the Bible, as some- 
thing to be, of course, v d established this institution to stand 
forever, when it has proven to be a great curse to the human 



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race and is done away with hy every civilized nation in the world. 
And how is it that God gives man strong drink and wine and 
it is spoken of everywhere (after the fall) in the Bible as some- 
thing to be used of course; especially wine, which experience has 
proven to be another great curse, and the best part of humanity 
in every part of the world is doing all they can to do away with 
it. God gives man these things, yet man in order to live as God 
desires has to make superhuman efforts to put them away. 
How is all this? 

The other way to answer it is as follows: "If the Creator did' 
not write the Bible liow does he communicate with man? Some 
claim there is no Creator or God; that nature does everything. 
It is hard for such to tell how nature came. There is a Creator 
and He has not created man and made him dependent on his 
Creator for instruction, guidance and government without some 
way of communicating His desire and will toman. That way 
must be with the spirit; there is no sign of any other way. 
Then let man communicate directly with the Creator and see 
what he requires man to do and how he rewards and punishes 
him. One way to do this is to study the spirit the Creator gives 
to man that is the controlling power in him in his way toward 
animals and things over which he has control and in his way 
toward his fellow man. If one man tries to injure another he 
will tell how bad the one that he tries to injure is. The vilest 
of the vile are conscious that if man does wrong that it is an 
injury to him and man always makes use of that understanding 
in trying to break down those that he desires to. On the other 
hand if one man tries to build up another he will tell how good 
he is. So it is evident that sin is punishment and righteousness 
is reward. Is it possible for man to live so tliat sin will not 
come upon him? If a man is using a horse, and the horse does 
all that is required he is not punished; it is only when he is 
disobedient that he is punished. It must be safe to conclude 
that the Creator is as merciful to man as man is to his horse. 
What does the Creat(>r require man to do to enable him to live 
so that he will not be punished? The first thing man requires 
of a horse is submission to his will; the horse must acknowl- 
edge man his master. There is no reason to suppose that the 
Creator requires less of man; the first thing is to acknowledge 
the Creator his master. 

Man has a knowledge of good and evil and the power to choose 



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between right and wrong. The Creator does not say which way 
man shall choose; He leaves It for him to choose and rewards 
and punishes him according to his choice. Animals have no 
knowledge of good and evil, nor power to choose; they do the 
will of man because they are obliged to. As man has this 
knowledge and power he must do the will of the Creator from 
choice, and acknowledge the Creator his master from choice. 
As it is impossible for man to acknowledge anything his master 
from choice without loving that object more than himself he 
must love his Creator witli all his being. How does the Creator 
require man to feel toward his neighbor? Man desires horses to 
be peaceable and not agitate each other so that they can be 
useful to him. If atiy try to right those around them he does not 
want the others to right back, but to be quiet and let him take 
care of the unruly ones. There is no reason to suppose that the 
Creator requires less of man. He requires man to love his neigh- 
bor as himself because he cannot live in peace unless he does, 
and if any neighbor takes it upon himself to illtreat another, 
that one is not to illtreat in return and destroy the usefulness 
of both to their Creator, but to keep his psace and maintain his 
relationship to his Creator and let Him take care of the disobe- 
dient one. So it is clear that the rirst duty of man is to love his 
Creator with all his being; the next is to love his neighbor as 
himself, and the next is not to render evil for evil. So the spirit 
of the Creator teaches what Christ taught. Then see the effect 
of Christ's teaching up;)n man. All the good there is in the 
world has come from it. See the difference between those who 
have had the benerit of it and those who have not. It is the 
forerunner of all progress. See the truth of it veriried at the 
death of His followers. The expression in their countenance is 
beyond the power of man to describe; only those who have seen 
it have seen the most wonderful work of God. It is not seen in 
the countenance of all who die professing to believe in Christ, 
but it is seen in some, and if He is not Divine, how does it come'? 
Of these two ways of thinking about the Bible, which is rightV 
There is a law that decides it, namely: There are two kinds of all 
created things, a good and bad. Every good thing has its oppo- 
site in a bad thing of the same kind and they are enemies. 
Every good plant that is useful to man has its opposite in weeds 
that are an abomination to man; and every good animal that is 
useful to man has its opposite in beasts of prey that are an 



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abomination to man. Man is so created th^t he is his own 
enemy; he has no enemy outside of himself, and he has the 
power to understand between good and evil, and understands 
when he is an abomination to himself and injuring himself and 
when he is doing urood to himself, and he has the power to choose 
for himself, so that the responsibility rests upon himself whether 
he shall be an abomination to himself or not. There are two 
spirits of which man can partake; one is good, the other is evil. 
If he chooses the good he is rewarded with good and is his own 
friend. If he chooses the evil he is rewarded with evil and is 
his own enemy. The world is so created that every good thing 
must look to something higher for deliverance from the enemies 
of its kind. In an even battle the bad and evil things are the 
strongest and will destroy the good; good plants must look 
to man for deliverance from weeds or they will be destroyed by 
them: good animals must look to man for deliverance from 
beasts of prey or they will be destroyed by them; the wolf is too 
strong for the sheep; the lion for the cow; the hawk for the 
chicken, etc. Man must look to something higher for deliver- 
ance from evil; in an even battle evil is strongest and will de- 
stroy him. 

What is the condition upon which a higher power will deliver 
those that are dependent upon it from their enemies? Man de- 
ivers plants from weeds and good animals from beasts of prey 
because it is for his interest to do so; he needs them for his use. 
God cannot deliyer man from evil because it is for His interest 
that man shall be delived from evil so that man can be useful 
to Him; because man possesses a knowledge of good and evil 
which makes it necessary for him to realize his dependence upon 
God and acknowledge it by asking for what he needs and de- 
sires. If God should bestow good gifts upon man without being 
asked, it would tempt man to look for things to come without 
any effort to appreciate them. It would be like a wealthy father 
bestowing great gifts unasked upon an ignorant and unappre- 
ciating son; which destroys him instead of building him up. It 
is for man to say whether he shall be delivered from evil or not. 

In regard to the future life: All things are created for the 
purpose of being useful to and serving something above them; 
good plants and animals are to be useful to and serve man; 
man is to be useful to and serve God. God has no more use than 
man for what is not good. Man has no use for abominable weeds 



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or beasts of prey; God can not use a bad man. How can God use 
a man who has chosen evil all his life and come to Him with no 
knowledge of or desire for good. Is there any more reason to 
expect that God can or will use such a man than there is to ex- 
pect that man can or will use abominable weeds? As this is the 
teachingof Christ it is irrefutable evidence that He is Divine. 

Then the question still is: Why does God give man these 
things that are so injurious? 

The answer is: It is a part of the curse consequent upon the 
fall of man. The food giyen before the fall consisted of the 
.seed of herbs and the fruit of trees. It was not until after the 
fall, when his desires had become depraved, that man had 
a craving for unnatural food and drink. The only way for him 
to reach physical perfection is to do away with these unnatural 
desires as he does away with abominable weeds and beasts of prey 
that infest the earth as another part of the curse. 

The earth was cursed for man's sake, so that he might raise 
himself by his own efforts. It was or is not Christ's mission 
to lessen these efforts by teaching man any of the arts necessary 
for his physical welfare: His mission is to save the soul. He 
shows that neither the food used, nor the condition of the body 
makes any difference with the soul; there can be a perfectly 
healthy body with a diseased soul, or a diseased body with a per- 
fectly healthy soul. 



PR^T SECOflD. 



To trace the fruit and seed kind of animal and vegetable food 
out by comparing it with fruit, commence with fruit that grows 
lilce the apple. The same kind of animal food is milk, which is 
the fruit of an animal. The natural cause of the fruit of the 
tree and animal is reproduction. Generation takes place alike 
in trees and animals and both grow on the same principle. 
When the tree drops its ripened fruit the fruit is fit to use; 
when the animal drops its young the milk is fit to use. Each 
kind is intended to serve the same purpose in nature. The part 
used of the fruit of a tree is intended to nourish the seed that 
grows with it when the seed starts to grow and become a tree. 
The part used of the fruit of an animal is intended to nourish 
the young animal. The same kind of vegetable food is squashes 
and other things that grow in the same way. They grow on the 
principle of apples and the part used is intended to serve the 
same purpose in nature. 

Thus the three kinds of food, fruit, animal and vegetable, in 
this class is traced, which can be called class A. 

Next, take fruit that grows like the cocoanut, which has 
a shell and two parts of a different nature inside. The same 
kind of animal food is the egg of fowls. They have a shell and 
two parts of a different nature inside. The cocoanut and egg 
grow on the same principle and are intended to serve the same 
purpose in nature; the milk of the cocoanut is intended to nour- 
ish the meat when it starts to grow and become a tree; the yolk 
of the egg is intended to nourish the white when it grows to 
form an animal. The same kind of vegetable food is wheat: 
(wheat is called vegetable food here to distinguish it from fruit 
and animal,) and Dotato. 

They grow on the principle that cocoanuts do. They have 
what may be termed a shell and two parts of a different nature 
inside; the inside part is intended to nourish the outside part 
when it grows. 



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Thus the three kinds of food, fruit, animal and vegetable, in 
this class is traced, which can be called class R. 

Next take fruit that grows like chestnuts, walnuts, etc., 
which have a shell with one part inside. The same kind of 
animal food is the eggs of Hsh. They have what may be termed 
a shell with one part inside. The same kind of vegetable food is 
rice and corn commonly called pop-corn. They have what may 
be termed a shell with one part inside. Each kind is intended to 
serve the same purpose in nature, namely: to grow and make 
a tree, an animal or a stalk. 

Thus the three kinds of food, fruit, animal and vegetable, in 
this class is traced, which can be called class C. 

Next take fruit that grows like the pine-apple, which is the fruit 
of a stalk and the part used is intended to nourish another part, 
the bunch of green sprouts at the top that grows with it when it 
grows to bear seed from which other pine-apples can be grown. 
The same kind of animal food is oysters. They grow on the 
principle that pine-apples do and the part that should be used 
is intended to serve the same purpose in nature. The same 
kind of vegetable food is cauliflower and parsnip. They grow 
like the pine-apple and the part used is intended to serve the 
same purpose. 

Thus the three kinds of food, fruit, animal and vegetable; in 
this class is traced, which can be called class 1). 

Next take fruit that grows like grapes; the same kind of ani- 
mal food is honey; the same kind of vegetable food is tomato. 

Thus the three kinds of food, fruit, animal and vegetable, in 
this class is traced, which can be called class E. 

There are Ave classes in all, and all the food there is that has 
not been mentioned belongs in one of them. 

It is not possible to now determine all the food that is adapted 
to man, but the following rule is a guide by which to tell 
whether any article is adapted or not. "Any article that frus- 
trates perfect digestion when the system is able to perfectly 
digest food that is unquestionably natural, is not adapted." 

Some vegetables are intended for animals and like some kinds of 
grain are too strong for the human stomach. It is no evidence 
that this system is not true because all things that are adapted 
are not now known. Neither is it necessary to wait until all 
things that are adapted are known before the system is demon- 
strated; it may be a great many years before that is found out. 
It is sufficient that enough is known to establish the truth of it. 



PA^T THlf^tD. 



The next thing is to find what part of each kind of food is 
suitable for man. 

The part of animal and vegetable food that is suitable is the 
part of fruit that is suitable. 

To find the part of animal and vegetable food that is suitable 
by comparing it with fruit, commence Avith class A. 

The apple is composed of four parts, the seed, the core, the skin 
and pulp. 

The fruit of the animal is composed of four parts, the young 
animal, the tllm that grows around the young animal commonly 
called the cleanings, what is commonly called the sour milk, and 
the cream. 

The squash is composed of four parts, the seed, the inwards, 
the- skin and the meat. 

The seed of the apple, the young animal and the seed of the 
squash are intended for one purpose in nature and all are un- 
suitable for food. The core of the apple, the film that grows 
around the young animal and the inwards of the squash are in- 
tended for one purpose in nature, and all are unsuitable for 
food. The skin of the apple, the sour milk and the skin of the 
squash are intended for one purpose in nature and all are un- 
suitable for food. The pulp of the apple, the cream and the 
meat of the squash are intended for one purpose in nature and 
all are suitable for food. 

NEXT TAKE CLASS B. 

The cocoanut is composed of three parts, the shell, the meat 
and the milk. Eggs of fowls are composed of three parts, the 
shell, the white and the yolk. Wheat is composed of three parts, 
the bran, the middlings and the flour. The potato is composed 
of three parts; (these parts can be distinguished by boiling with 
the skin on.) The skin is one part; there is a substance next to 
the skin that has a greenish cast of color and a rank, strong taste 



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which is another part, and the center of the potato is the other. 

The shell of the cocoanut, the shell of the e^g, the bran of 
wheat and the skin of potato are intended for one purpose in 
nature and all are unsuitable for food. The meat of the cocoa- 
nut, the white of the egg, the middlings of wheat and the 
t^reenish rank substance of potato are intended for onepurpose 
in nature and all are unsuitable for food. The milk of the 
cocoanut, the yolk of the egg, the flour from wheat and the cen- 
ter of the potato are intended for one purpose in nature and all 
are suitable for food. 

Class B differs from class A in that the part suitable grows 
inside of the part that it is intended to nourish while in class 
A the part suitable grows outside of the part that it is intended 
to nourish, and in class A the part that grows is a seed, but in 
class ]\ it is a substance that resembles something suitable for 
food more than a seed, yet like a seed it has the power to grow. 

NEXT TAKE CLASS C. 

Walnuts, chestnuts, etc., are composed of two parts, the shell 
and the meat. Eggs of flsh are composed of two parts, the shell, 
(which differs from the shell of the nut in that it holds a great 
many eggs,) and the egg. Rice and pop-corn arecomposedof two 
parts, the shell and the kernel of rice or corn. 

The shell of the nut, the shell of the flsh, the shell of rice and 
the husk of corn are intended for one purpose in nature and all 
are unsuitable for food. The meat of the nut, the egg of the 
flsh and the kernel of rice or corn are intended for one purpose 
in nature and all are suitable for food. 

Class C differs from all other classes in that the part that 
grows is suitable for food, while in all other classes that part is 
not suitable. 

NEXT TAKE CLASS D. 

The pine-apple is composed of three parts, the skin, the bunch 
of sprouts at the top and the pulp. The oyster is composed of . 
three parts, the shell, the juice and the solid part. The cauli- 
flower is composed of three parts, the leaves that are outside of 
the head, the stump and the head. The parsnip is composed of 
three parts, the skin, the bunch of sprouts at the top and the 
meat 

The skin of the pine-apple, the shell of the oyster, the outside 
leaves of the cauliflower and the skin of the parsnip are in- 
tended for one purpose in nature and all are unsuitable for food. 



The bunch of sprouts of the pineapple, the juice of the oyster, 
the stump of the cauliflower and the bunch of sprouts of the 
parsnip are intended for one purpose in nature and all are un- 
suitable for food. The pulp of the pineapple, the solid part of 
the oyster, the head of the cauliflower and the meat of the par- 
snip are intended for one purpose in nature and all are suitable 
for food. 

Class D differs from classes A and B in that the part used is 
intended to nourish another part that grows with it when it 
grows to bear seed, while in classes A and B the part used is in- 
tended to nourish the part that grows with it when it starts to 
grow. 

NEXT TAKE CLASS E. 

Grapes are composed of three parts, the skin, the seed and 
the pulp. Honey is composed of three parts, the comb, the 
young bees and the honey. Tomatoes are composed of three 
parts, the skin, the seed and the pulp. 

The skin of grapes, the comb of honey and the skin of toma- 
toes are intended for one purpose in nature and all are unsuitable 
for food. The seed of grapes, the young bees and the seed of 
tomatoes are intended for one purpose in nature and all are un- 
suitable for food. The seed of grapes and tomatoes are eaten but 
do not have any ill effect because they are not digested. The 
pulp of grapes, the honey and the pulp of tomatoes are intended 
for one purpose in nature and all are suitable for food. 

Class E resembles class A more than any other. It differs from 
class A in that there is no core around the seed. It has only 
three parts. 

The part suitable for food in each class is as follows: In class 
A, the pulp of the apple, the cream and the meat of the veget- 
able. In class B, the milk of the nut, the yolk of the egg, the 
flour from wheat and the center of the potato. In class C the 
meat of the nut, the eggs of the flsh and the kernel of rice, or 
corn. In class D, the pulp of the pine- apple, the solid part of the 
oyster, the head of the cauliflower and the meat of the root. In 
class E, the pulp of grapes, the honey and the pulp of tomatoes. 



PflJ^T FOOt^TH. 



Now consider the bad effect the different articles that are 
commonly used for food, that are left out, has on the human 
system. 

The bad effect of meat has been demonstrated, but the ques- 
tion of what can be done with it if it cannot be eaten must be 
answered. If it was not necessary to raise any more animals 
than is necessary to produce milk they could be buried after 
they are worn out, as horses are, but it is necessary to raise steers 
for hides to make harness and other kinds of heavy leather for 
which there can be no substitute. There is nothing so light that 
is so strong or will endure so much, and as it is pliable and con- 
venient to handle, it is indispensable for such purposes. 

There are always correct ways to meet necessary ends. The 
following are some of the ways it can be used: There should be 
a great many more fowls in the world than there are and they 
are great consumers of meat, and if they have all that is neces- 
sary to enable them to produce the greatest number of eggs they 
will consume a great deal. And there may be a bird found that, 
together with ftsh, will produce the animal food belonging in 
class C. If so, they should be tamed and kept for that purpose, 
and they will require a great deal; and as the world grows older 
and wild animals that produce fur are killed off, it may be 
necessary to raise animals for that purpose, which will require a 
great deal; and it may be found necessary in manufacturing 
purposes; and if there is no other way, it is better to use it for 
manure, of which there is a dearth, than to use it for food. It is 
poor economy to eat anything to save it, and Anally pay out a 
great deal more than it is worth in doctor bills, to say nothing of 
the lost time and distress caused by sickness. 

Now consider sugar. That is simply the juice of unnatural 
food boiled down. It is impossible to have perfect digestion 
when it is used, and there is no one thing that is the cause of so 
much early decay and premature death. 



Now consider the classes. Commencing with class A; take 
milk flrst: That is esteemed so highly that it is often used as 
the main food for the sick: the reasons are that it contains all 
the elements necessary for the human system and in the right 
proportion, and is, or appears to be, very palatable and soothing. 
Although cow's milk contains nearly the same elements as human 
milk, it can not be used by-children before they are weaned, with- 
out trouble. If it can not be used by children without trouble 
when milk is their natural food, is it possible for adults to use it 
when no milk is natural food? When the system is out of order 
from the use of meat, lard, butter, (without buttermilk,) sugar, 
etc., milk is very palatable and soothing if used once in a while. 
At such times it seems as though if man was a mind to subject 
himself he could do no better than to make it form a good por- 
tion of his diet. But it is impossible to make it form a consider- 
able portion of his diet without trouble, foul stomach, and cpn- 
stipation, the extent of which is in proportion to the amount, 
and length of time used. 

There is no doubt but the use of milk in sickness has been the 
cause of a great many deaths. It is often made to form the 
whole diet excepting a little orange, jelly, etc. Sometimes rum 
is used. It causes a foul stomach which is attributed to the dis- 
ease; thinking there can be nothing wrong in anything appar- 
ently so harmless as milk. If the patient has strength of con- 
stitution to overcome both the disease and the effect of milk he 
gets well, and such cases are cited as evidence of the value of 
milk. If he dies he is supposed to have been destroyed by the 
disease alone. How can a very sick man get well on a diet that 
will make a well man sick? 

Next take sour milk. That is not generally used to any extent. 
If it should be it would cause foul stomach and constipation. " 

Next take butter, without buttermilk, that is used mainly for 
the purpose of making other food palatable. It is impossible 
for man to use such unnatural food as fermented bread without 
something to make it taste more natural, so butter is used and 
it makes fermented bread taste a great deal more likp natural 
food than it does without butter. But it makes bad work in the 
system. With fat meat, sugar and lard, it destroys the lungs, 
the heart, the kidneys, the urinary organs and causes fevers. 
See sixth and seventh verses in preface. 

Next take class B- Commence with the meat of the cocoanut. 



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That is unpleasant to taste and hard U< chew and digest and 
causes constipation if used to any extent. 

Next take wheat. Some think the whole of wheat is better 
than a part because it contains all the elements necessarj^ for the 
human system, and in the right proportion, and appears to be 
loosening. Ic is not possible for man to make any one article 
answer for him even if there are articles that, like wheat and 
milk, contain all the necessary elements and in the right propor- 
tion. He must use several that are intended for him, then one 
will make up for what the other lacks and all will be adapted. 
The whole of wheat has a loosening effect at first caused by the 
effort of the system to get rid of it. as it is unnatural, but after a 
while foul stomach and constipation follow, which continue as 
long as it is used. 

Next take potato. The greenish part next to the skin is rank 
and disagreeable to taste and causes constipation. 

Next take the white of eggs. That is cool and inviting to 
man when he is burnt up with fat and sugar, but it is tastele.ss 
and uninviting to the undepraved taste and causes constipation, 
and it is impossible to have perfect digestion when it is used. 
It is not liable to be used sufficiently to cause serious trouble, 
yet man is b'^tter off without it. There is food enough that is 
adapted without using any that is not. 

Constipation is caused by the use of unnatural food and not 
by sedentary occupations as is generally supposed. Not that 
there is not more vigor in active out-door pursuits, but the stom- 
ach and bowels do not suffer any more from sedentary pursuits 
than any other part of the system, and when wholly natural 
food is used there is no perceptible weakness in the bowels, let 
the occupation be what it may. 

There is no kind in class C that is unsuitable, so take class D 
next. The only kind in that class that is generally used that is 
unsuitable is the juice of the oysters. As that is about like the 
white of eggs in effect, what has been said of that is applicable 
to the juice of oysters. 

There is none in class E that is generally used that is unsuita- 
ble, so the classes are finished. But there are other considera- 
tions. 

Unnatural food Is to a great extent the cause of the use of 
strong and intoxicating drinks. The food causes an unnatural 
thirst, which water will not quench, and something which ap- 



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pears to offset the effect of the food is taken instead of water, 

A great many die prematurely from the use of unnatural food 
and intoxicating drink, but a great many more die prematurely 
by the use of unnatural food alone. The great mortality among 
children is mainly caused by the use of fermented bread and 
butter, without buttermilk, lard, fat meat, gravy and sugar. 
Children are given what they like best and as their taste is com- 
paratively undepraved they do not like lean meat, (although lean 
meat is unnatural and works injury it is less injurious than fat 
and sugar, and after people get old enough to make it form a 
good portion of their diet they escape a great deal that children 
suffer j) so they eat what tastes more like natural food, bread and 
butter, potato and gravy, pie, cake and sauce, which brings 
croup, scarlet fever, diphtheria and nearly all diseases incident 
to children. Women suffer more than men because they follow 
their natural instincts more and eat the same that children do. 

The average man of middle age lias no real relish for food, and 
eats mainly because he knows it is necessary. A vijgorous child 
can relish and eat most anything jje is obliged to?satisfy hun- 
ger and can eat most anything without distress, but unnatural 
food gradually destroys his vigor and by the time he is middle- 
aged, just when he should be in his prime and more vigorous 
than at any previous time, he has no real relish for food and 
cannot eat things without distress, that agreed with him, so far 
as he was conscious of, when a child. 

Animals are healthy and relish food when aged as well as when 
young, and are always vigorous and strong until their natural 
decay and death from old age. 

Is there any reason why man, the most noble work of God, 
should not enjoy health and strength as well as animals? Is it 
right to suppose that man, who is blessed in every other respect 
above all created things, should be cursed with disease his entire 
life; that his life should be one continuous struggle, both con- 
sciously and unconsciously, with disease? It is not. God has 
not made anything imperfect. When man uses the perfect food 
intended for him, and uses it as is intended he shall, he will be 
free from disease. 



PAf^T FIFTH. 

Now consider how food should be prepared. Commence with 
fruit. That needs no preparation further than what it gets in 
cultivation. No part should be fermented, nor should it be 
cooked. That destroys it for the purpose it is intended for. name- 
ly: To digest other food. There are both nutritive and diges- 
tive properties in it; the nutritive properties are only partly 
destroyed by cooking; the digestive properties are wholly destroy- 
ed. By using natural food and uncooked food man can have 
perfect digestion, which he can not have In any other way. There 
is a way for man to tell whether digestion is perfect or not. 
Every one who has handled a horse is aware that the air that 
comes from the bowels (commonly called breaking wind) has an 
odor that is not very-disagreeable to smell: instead it is rather 
pleasant to most people. This betokens i)erfect digestion. Every 
one is aware that the same thing in man is more or less disa- 
greeable. This is supposed to be necessarily so. But it is not. 
When natural food is used and digestion is perfect the odor from 
the air which is necessary to pass from the bowels is no more 
disagreeable than the odor from the bowels of a horse. By this 
odor man can tell whether digestion is perfect or not. Perfect 
digestion cannot be expected at the commencement of the use of 
natural food. The system must have time to get over the use of 
unnatural food. It does not require but little meat, lard, sugar 
or other unnatural food to frustrate perfect digestion. This is 
a part of the irrefutable evidence that the system herein demon- 
strated is the law of creation. 

Todry fruit does not destroy it. It is not (luite as good, yet 
will answer if no other can be had. It can be used dry^by being 
careful to chew thoroughly— or it can be soaked in water and 
then used. The water should be boiled and cooled before it is 
put on the fruit. 

Another objection to cooking fruit is, it can not be restored to 
its original lieauty and flavor. 



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Next take animal and vegetable food. Flour is generally made 
into bread via fermentation. That should not be. No food 
should be fermented. That damages its nutritive properties, 
makes it unpalatable and causes constipation. If man dispenses 
with fermented bread until the effect of it is gone from the sys- 
tem, the disagreeable smell and taste of it is evidence that it is 
not suitable for food (man's sense of smell and taste are for the 
purpose of discerning w^hat is suitable, and no food should be 
used that is offensive to them:) and if it is eaten the nervous dis- 
order it causes makes him think that the wonder is not so much 
that so many die prematurely as that so many survive as long as 
they do. If bread that is prepared riglit is dispensed with, no 
matter how long, it does not cause disorder wlien used again, in- 
stead it is more agreeable than if used every day. Flour should 
be mixed with cream, or its equivalent in butter and butter-milk, 
the yolk of eggs, water and soda. By mixing flour with animal 
food each sunplies what the other lacks for construction, nutri- 
tion and flavor. Flour can be mixed with butter-milk and the 
butter used when it is eaten, but that is not the best way, be- 
cause the butter, when not mixed with flour, retards the action 
of the digestive organs, and has a tendency to injure the kidneys. 
When the kidneys are diseased none should be used that way. 
God does not make one part of the apple tasteless and the other 
part something to make it relish. It is good all through, and 
that is the way man should prepare the food that is intended for 
him to prepare. Sour cream or butter-milk should be used in- 
stead of cream of tartar or baking powder. Soda should be used 
in mixing flour whether the animal food used is sour or not. 

There is no harm in using soda. Lj'e will not do to wash the 
body with, but when its alkaline properties are neutralized by 
grease and it is made into soap, it is harmless and better than to 
wash without it. So if soda is taken alone into the stomach it 
is hurtful, but when its alkaline properties are neutralized by 
the oil and acid of animal food, which require the alkaline prop- 
erties of soda to neutralize what would otherwise be the bad 
effect of them, it is no longer harmful: instead it makes food 
smell and taste better than it does without it, and keeps the 
stomach pure and healthy. 

All things should be cooked as soon as mixed. None should be 
left over until the next meal so as to have it freshly baked, think- 



ing that it is just as well if soda is used to make it sweet. That 
generates the germ of disease and causes boils. 

Pop-corn can be ground and the meal prepared in various 
waj'S; or it can be boiled whole. When that is done it should be 
soaked in water long enough before cooking to make the outside 
tender. 

Tea and coffee are for seasoning water as nutmeg, cinnamon, 
etc., are for seasoning food. There are two parts to either tea 
or coffee, one is hurtful, the other is beneficial. In steeping the 
good goes into the water first, and neither should be allowed to 
stay in the water any longer than- necessary to extract the good. 
Neither should be so strong that it is not pleasant without 
cream or sugar. No water should be drank until it has been 
boiled It can be cooled before using in hot weather, and it is 
better to let it stand until the lime settles, when it can be poured 
off before using. 



Pflf^T SIXTH. 



Now consider how food should be used. Man should he care- 
ful that he does not suffer for any one kind of food. All are 
more or less necessary or they would not have been created. It 
does not follow that as somethings cannot be grown in some 
localities they are not needed there. 

Class C forms the part of food for man that grain does for 
animals. The part of hay that does animals good is theleaf that 
is on the stalk. It is intended by nature to nourish the stalk 
when it grows to bear seed. The same kind of food for man is 
class D, and classes A and B are nearly the same; so near that 
they all serve the purpose for man that hay does for animals. 
In class C there is no ditference. The part used whether for 
man or animals is the part that grows. It is curious that while 
there are a great many kinds of this kind of fruit food, chest- 
nuts, walnuts, almonds, etc., there are only two kinds of veg- 
etables, and so far as known, one kind of animal food. Rice and 
pop-corn are the kinds of vegetable food. Rice is good for a 
change once in a while but will not do for the main thing, be- 
cause it will not give tlie system sufficient strength to endure 
hardships. If it is alone made to form this class of vegetable 
food, the skin and muscles become tender and weak, the skin 
wears off from the hands very quickly in hard work, and the 
whole system has a sort of mushroom growth, something like 
rice Itself, which is grown in water to a great extent, and like all 
things grown in that way, is not very substantial. Rice that 
grows on upland may not have so bad an effect. Pop-corn has 
a hardy growth and makes the system solid and strong. It 
should be used every day. Everybody knows how necessary it is 
for a horse to have grain in order to have perfect development. 
It is just as necessary for man to have this class of food, and 
when he does not, he lacks the same in development that a horse 
lacks that has no grain. 



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Pop-corn is used only as a sort of oddity for adults and a pleas- 
ing morsel for youths and children at times; and as it is small, 
and not so easily raised as large corn, that is supposed to he all 
it is fit for; no one thinks it contains anything necessary or in- 
dispensable, yet it does, and is the most valuable grain that 
grows. There is no substitute for it. Potato can be substituted 
for flour a great deal better than rice can for this grain. What- 
ever way it is prepared, the outside is coarse enough to keep the 
bowels loose, which is so much desired. It has none of the hay- 
like smell and taste that the whole of wheat has, nor the strong, 
unnatural taste that oat meal has, and it will not cause sour 
stomach and nausea as these things will. It makes better 
broth, soup or porridge, than can be made from anything else; 
no matter how many things are used. Like flour it can be used 
in some form at every meal with relish and it gives the system 
more heart, life and vigc)r, than any other food. 

These qualities place it at the head of all food for man. For 
that reason and in view of the important part it ought to take 
in food and commerce in the future, it should have a name of its 
own and not be called some kind of corn because it grows like 
corn. Wheat grows like rye, yet it is not called some kind of 
rye; neither is rye called some kind of wheat, but each has 
a name which sounds better and is more convenient. The name 
should be short and simple so as to be easily spelled and pro- 
nounced and should be unlike the name of any other thing. The 
letters k-n-o-r-e placed as they are here, the k being silent, make 
such a name and by that let it be called. 

Since writing the foregoing, evidence ^has come to light which 
goes to show that the sweet corn commonly used for green corn 
belongs in this class (C) of food. If it does it is a valuable kind 
because it grows larger and consequently is more easily raised 
than pop-corn, yet possibly it being sweet may make it unsuitable 
for constant use. If it is cooked by boiling when ripe it must be 
soaked a long time before cooking in order to have the outside 
tender. 

Buttermilk is about forty per cent of cream and is of more 
value than butter. While it is impossible to use more than the 
equal proportion of butter without trouble, more than the equal 
proportion of buttermilk can be safely used, and it is well for 
those who work hard to use it that way on account of its value 
for the muscle and brain. A little goes far and care should be 



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taken not to use enough to cause unnatural thirst, inflammation 
in the bowels and catarrh, which it will if too much is used. 
"When the kidneys and urinary orsrans are diseased, no butter 
should be used. While they are recovering the necessary oil can 
be furnished to the system by the yolk of eggs, and care should 
be taken not to use enough of them to prevent recovery. No per- 
manent harm will come if the system does not, for the time being, 
have all the oil it requires when in a normal state. The diges- 
tive properties of buttermilk are nearly equal to fruit. 

Potato is so near the nature of flour that it is not necessary 
every day where flour is used. 

It will not do to use cream or butter for the yolk of egg or the 
yolk of egg for cream or butter, thinking that as they are both 
of an oily nature one will do as well as the other. The yolk of 
egg is necessary for the nerves; there is no other food that will 
answer in its place. By its use the hair becomes soft and lus- 
trous, providing no unnatural food is used. 

The difference in the immediate effect on the system, after 
natural food has been used long enough to clear the system from 
the effect of unnatural food, between supplying it with oil by 
using cream and the yolk of egg instead of lard and fat meat is: 
lard and fat meat c?use an unnatural burning sensation through- 
out the entire system; which cream and the yolk of egg do not. 
There is the same difference between honey and sugar that there 
is between cream and lard. Honey has a soothing, exhilirating 
effect and should be often used. It is liable to distress adults 
who are weak from the use of unnatural food, but will not cause 
distress after the system gets over the effect of such food. Care 
should be taken not to use too much seasoning in either food or 
drink. 

"No food should be used to excess. The excessive use of fruit, 
or tea, or coffee, or cream, or any other thing will cause catarrh, 
which is the forerunner of all disease and is caused either by the 
use of unnatural or the excessive use of some kind of natural 
food, and not by a cold as is generally supposed. Catarrh can 
be caused by not using enough soda to neutralize the acid, and 
as too much soda causes constipation and is otherwise injurious, 
it is necessary to be careful that the soda and acid neutralize 
each other. 

Comparatively little animal food is required, and of the two, 
more yolk of egg than cream, or its equivalent in butter and but- 



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termilk. More buttermilk than yolk of e^j^can be used. No fruit 
or any other kind of food should be used when there Is catarrh 
caused by the excessive use of it. Digestion is notquite as perfect 
when no fruit is used as when it is ; but it is nearly as perfect, if 
no unnatural food is used, and the system thrives. 

The amount of food necessary for one man is no criterion by 
which to determine the amount necessary for another. A bird 
dog requires more than a heavy bull dog. The bird dog runs 
what he eats off, hunting; the bull dog lies down and uses up but 
little nourishment. Some men with light frame and active 
brain require more than others with heavy frame and less active 
brain. 

The sense of hunger is not a correct indication of man's neces- 
sities. If he fasts fortj'-eight hours, the sense of hunger departs 
and the first food is not relished. On the other hand if he eats 
all he is hungry for at every meal he takes more than the sys- 
tem requires, which makes it necessary to fast. When man finds 
himself surfeited he can stop eating before his sense of hunger 
is satisfied. When that is done there is a sense of hunger after 
eating, but it passes away in a short time and there is no more 
hunger until the next meal time. There is no harm in eating 
just before sleep, providing there is need of food. When man is 
surfeited he sleeps and rests better to fast. But there is no 
more harm in taking food that is natural to keep from suffering 
hunger during the night than there is in putting on clothes to 
keep from suffering cold. On the contrary sleep and rest is 
better. 

In eating, the following rules should be observed : No kind of 
food should be eaten between meals. No more drink than is 
necessary to satisfy thirst should be taken at meal time. Food 
should be moistened and swallowed with gastric juice, of which 
there is enough when natural food is used. Fruit should form 
the last part of a meal. When nuts or honey are used they 
should be used with fruit. 

Drink should be surrounded by gastric juice in swallowing; 
(children and horses do this and the effort of drawing the water 
slowly into the mouth and surrounding it with juice as it is 
swallowed causes a noise such as children and horses make in 
drinking,) then it is not so liable to harm when a great deal is 
used as is necessary when hard work is done in hot weather. It 
is not necessary to make this noise so that it sounds disagreeable. 



PAt^T SEVEflTH. 



Now consider the effect of this food: To some it may at first 
appear to be a sacrifice to give up meat and things made from 
lard and sugar that are generally considered nice and live on the 
(what may at first appear to be) simple things of this system and 
it may seem as though man would get tired of it. Man can use 
the food created for him during life without getting tired. 
There are some things added as well as taken away, and there 
is no sacrifice of variety. It is impossible for man to prepare 
food that is so attractive, either in looks or taste, out of food 
that is not intended for him as he can out of food that is. After 
he has used this food long enough to realize the difference in all 
its bearings nothing would induce him to change. If ho was 
compelled to he Avould consider it a great sacrifice: even so far as 
taste is concerned it would be a sacrifi ce. 

The length of time required to effect a change for the better 
in people who are sick is wonderfully short. Nature is quick to 
do its work when it has a chance. 

There is no food that will build up the human system so fast 
and perfect, or sustain it so long and well in hardship. By its 
use man can endure more heat and cold, and do more work and 
do it easier than by the use of other food, because he has nothing 
within himself to contend with. It is the only way to perfect 
health and physical development. 

Nothing can be said that will enable man to comprehend the 
difference between the toughness, solidity, life, vigor, strength 
and power of endurance of the entire sj'stem, after this food is 
used long enough to make the system new, and when other food 
is used. It must be experienced to be realized. 



NOTES. 

If the hand is burning it is not necessary to take it away from 
the fire slowly for fear of trouble from a sudden change. So it is 
not necessary to change to this system gradually. 

In commencing this system man should not be deceived into 
thinking that because he has nothing in him tocreate unnatural 
heat and stimulus he has nothing in him to give him strength. 

If this system is partially tried it may not appear to have a par- 
tial good effect, because the natural food used may appear to 
cause distress when it is the unnatural food that is used with it 
that causes it. 

Satan is wily and not lacking in devices to keep man down. 

"Some fell upon stony places where they had not much earth 
and forthwith they sprung u]) l)ecause they had no deepness of 
earth. 

"And when the sun was up they were scorched and because 
they had no root they withered away. 

"And some fell among thorns and the thorns sprung up and 
choked them. 

"But others fell into good ground and brought forth fruit, some 
an hundred-fold, some sixty-fold and some thirty-fold. 

"Who hath ears to hear let him hear." Mat. 13. 5-9. 

There is one thing that man can not hire done. God alone can 
give him the grace and courage necessary to practice the self 
denial and endurance necessary to maintain health and perfect 
physical organization. The brightest and deepest thoughts and 
most noble purposes are born during travail over great physical 
trials. Such thoughts and purposes are not given in idle, evil 
pursuits. 

If this system is not condemned through lack of comprehen- 
sion nor evil design, it will not be condemned. 



APPEfltDlX. 



I have not intended to say anything outside of the subject of 
food, but am aware of one thin;^ that so much needs to be gen- 
erally understood that I can not refrain from stating it, and to 
give it due force, state the incident that caused its development. 

A man by the name of Charles vras once staying with a friend 
by the name of James who had a valuaVjle jersey cow that had 
a caked bag. He doctored her according to directions derived 
from a book by one of the greatest veterinary surgeons of Lon- 
don, England, to no avail. Charles was working for himself at 
a window where he could look out and see the cow as she stood 
in the yard, and his sympathy was excited for her. She con- 
stantly grew worse and her suffering seemed to be unendurable. 
His sympathy was increased by the fact that he had read some- 
time during the winter that what was considered the most val- 
urble jersey cow in the country had died from the same cause, 
and It was evident that this cow must die unless she was re- 
lieved, of which there seemed to be no hope as the treatment she 
was receiving was doing no good, besides if it had been possible 
for veterinary surgeons to effect a cure they would have cured 
the prize cow, there being no doubt but the best known methods 
had been employed to save her. The thought of what the cow 
would suffer before she was relieved by death was unendurable to 
him and he tried to think of some way to relieve her. Finally 
a thought came to him. He was in the habit of washing him- 
self once a week in the following way: He would take a pail or 
a tub large enough to stand in without hurting the feet and put 
enough hot soft water into it to come up to the ankles, then 
about a quart of hot soft water that had enough soap dissolved 
in it to make a strong suds and put it on a chair or a bench by 
the side of the tub and have two or three gallons of hot hard 
water ready for use, then stand in the tub and with a sponge 
and a cloth (the cloth for the eyes, face and ears,) wash himself 



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all over, the hair on the head included, with the suds, taking 
care to have the room warm enough to prevent any disagreeable 
chill, then with another sponge and cloth and the hot hard 
water, (which is better than sol't water for the purpose because it 
does it quicker and cleaner,) rinse the suds oif, which leaves the 
body perfectly clean and is much better than to lie down in 
a tub of suds and get up and wipe with a towel which leaves 
more or less soap in the pores, which although not as bad as 
dirt, is not as well as to have the skin perfectly clean, and as 
there is more waste cast off through the hands and feet than 
other parts of the body, he washed the feet every night, which 
they require as much as the body requires washing once a 
week. He had noticed that in handling the suds that if there 
were any sores or cracks in the hands the inflammation was taken 
out, and that it appeared to draw the substance out of the 
fingers, and had noticed that the lingers of women after they 
had washed clothes were shrunken, and it seemed to him that 
if suds had such an effect in so sh(>rt a time, that possibly by 
long continuing it might draw the soreness out of the cow, and 
he suggested it to his friend, but he scouted the idea of any- 
thing so simple amounting to anything and would not try it. 
He was a man of exalted ideas and scorned any trifling; he em- 
ployed the best in the world in such cases, and if they failed he 
calmly submitted to what appeared to him to be inevitable. 
While Charles was as careful as his friend and would do noth'ng 
from which there was a possibility of harm coming, he was ready 
to try anything that appeared reasonable when all other things 
had failed. His work was so pressing that he could not leave it 
to try the experiment himself, so he had to content himself with 
saying what he could to induce his friend to try it. It run along 
so until his hurrying job was done and the crisis with the cow 
had come. It was evident that she could not hold out much 
longer. Her bag was as red as flre and she was in agony. Then 
he put two kettles of water on the stove, about seven o'clock in 
the evening, and cut enough soap into them to make a strong 
suds, and when they got hot took one to the barn and set it 
under the cow so that the suds would run back into it and 
commenced. Her bag A'as so sore that she would not allow it to 
be touched at first, so he commenced away from it and worked 
gradually down to it. When one kettle of water got cold it was 
changed for the hot one and the water was kept as hot as it 



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could be handled. It was a slow job and required care and 
patience, but by four o'clock the next morning there was no 
inflammation or cake in the bag, and he had the satisfaction of 
going to bed with the consciousness that he had relieved the 
cow from suffering and death. He had quite a severe cold when 
he commenced, and it was a cold raw windy night in March, but 
the next day his cold was gone; handling the hot suds had drawn 
it out. 

Where there is soreness or inflammation in man or beast apoly 
hot suds and rub and knead the parts as much as can be endured 
until there is relief. The suds should not be strong enough to 
make the skin smart. 

There is another thing which, although not established beyond 
doubt, is of so much interest and importance that it should be 
investigated and proven, and if it shall not prove to be the cause 
of and remedy for the diseases named, it is the cause of unthrift- 
iness and trouble and should be understood. 

In the fall of 1889 I had five shoats. They were about seven 
months old and had had the best of care. They throve quite 
well during the summer, but in the fall they did not thrive and 
some of them began to act and appear as I had been told hogs 
act and appear when they are first taken with cholera. Finally 
they got so bad that there was no question about their being un- 
well, and everything seemed to indicate that choleia was the 
cause. As I was pondering over the probability of losing them 
a thought came to me I had been in the habit of putting a part 
of their feed on the ground, and in eating it they ate more or less 
dirt and possibly that might have something to do with it. So 
I put all their feed in the trough and arranged it so that they 
would not be likely to get any out. Then their trouble and un- 
thriftiness ceased and they grew fast. Then I began to investi- 
gate to see whether or not this is the cause of hog cholera. I 
went to a neighbor who had lost about thirty a few years before 
who gave me the following information: All his hogs had been 
attacked except two stock hogs that he kept shut up in pens off 
from the ground. They escaped although the drove of stricken 
and dying hogs were around the pens all the time and the pens 
were not so tight but what they could nearly get their noses 
together in places, but he was afraid that they might sooner or 
later be attacked from being so much exposed, and took the most 
valuable one out of his pen and drove him into a yard across the 



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road where inpHir.se of time he was attacked anddied.but thoune 
that remained in the pen was not attacked and was the only one 
in the drove that was not. At the time he took pains to investi- 
gate it as much as he could and I'ound that wherever hogs were 
kept in pens off from the ground they escaped, he heard of but 
one hog that was in a pen that was attacked and died. Could 
not say whether there was a floor i n the pen or not. Had noticed 
that all farmers on one side of the road that passed his place had 
lost all their hogs, while the farmers on the other side of the 
same road had lost none. That the farmers joining him on one 
side had lost all while the farmers joining him on the other side: 
(he owned land on both siaes of the road.) had lost none. It ap- 
peared to go in streaks. He sold one neighbor two sows {of the 
same breed that he kept,) out of his drove, the spring before. They 
raised pigs and ran in a lot across the road from and in sight of 
his hogs, not one of them being attacked, while he lost every hog 
he had outside of the pen except one old sow. She was attacked 
but lived through it. He found that everywhere where it raged 
the youngest, smallest and weakest had been attacked and died 
first, the largest and strongest escaping to the last. Was not at 
home when his hogs were first attacked, had gone to Nebraska 
on a visit or business, and did not get home until a great many 
were dead. Had been in the habit of feeding the liogs himself 
when at home and naturally selected a clean place to put the 
corn. Had never lost any hogs previous to this year. Upon 
looking back and taking into consideration all the facts and 
circumstances, he had no doubt but the hogs were fed while he 
was gone so that they got a great deal of ground mixed with 
their feed, the one that was across the road in a yard by himself 
included. Then I went to his neighbor across the road who gave 
me the following information: He had given his hogs a little 
kerosene oil and sulphur in their swill as lie had noticed that 
hogs that were attacked had sore throats, and kerosene was good 
for that and sulphur was good to physic and regulate the bowels: 
had fed corn on the ground but had selected clean places to put 
the feed, had always done that in feeding anything. His hogs 
had run in a lot across the road from his neighbors' which were 
dying. Then I saw another man who lived about three miles 
from the first two whose hogs had escaped, although a near neigh- 
bor, (who has since moved away,) lost heavily. He said he had 
done nothing to prevent it: had fed corn on the ground and had 



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always been in the habit of selecting u clean place to feed any- 
thing': could not say how his neighbor who lost hogs fed. 

There has been no hog cholera since and this is as far as I have 
been able to carry the investigation. Following is the sum so 
far as gone: 1. No hogs that have been known (the pen where 
the hog that was shut up died may not have had a floor and may 
have been fed on the ground) to have been shut up so that they 
could not get the feed mixed with ground have been attacked, 
although in the case of the stock hogs referred to, they were sur- 
rounded by hogs that were constantly dying from the disease and 
the pens were such that the hogs could nearly get their noses 
togetjier in places in smelling each other. The hog that was 
taken out of the pen and away from the stricken hogs and fed on 
the ground in the same way that the drove was, was attacked 
and died. 2. No hogs have been known to have been attacked 
when fed on the ground when pains has been taken to feed in 
a clean place, although in the case of the second faimer referred 
to they were of the same breed as those that were dying from 
the disease, and the two droves ran in lots that had only a road 
to separate them. 3. There is no hog cholera in the eastern 
states where farmers are in the liabit of feeding in a trough, it 
niges only in the western states where farmers are in the habit 
of feeding on the ground. 4. Numbers make no difference. The 
one stock hog in the yard alone was attacked although on the 
same side of the road and within one hundred rods of the drove 
that escaped. 5. The cause of the youngest, smallest and weak- 
est being attacked and dying first may be that the largest and 
strongest drive them away and get the cleanest corn which pre- 
serves them to the last. There is a great deal of difference in 
ground, and it is impossible for h(»gs to get as much unround 
mixed with feed on some farms, even though there is no pains 
taken in feeding, as on others, which may be another reason why 
some droves escape. The reason why the disease has not raged 
as hard for the last few years as it did, may be that farmers who 
had been losing steadily suddenly gave up the business, there 
being no perceptible falling off in the supply because those who 
had lost hogs had had none to sell. The following may be the 
history and origin of the disease: When farmers first came west 
they were in limited circumstances. The country was undevel- 
oped and but few hogs were raised, which were fed in troughs 
according to the eastern custom, but as the country developed 



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and great crops of corn and large droves of hogs were raised and 
labor was scarce and wages were high, hogs were fed on the 
gn.und because of the time and expense saved, which resulted in 
producing the disease. 

The foregoing facts and indications are sufficient to justify 
those who are interested in investigating, experimenting and 
proving whether this is the cause of the disease or not. 

Whether it is or not there is one thing sure, disease and un- 
thriftiness to a greater or less extent come from feeding so that 
ground and dirt gets mixed with the feed. 

I bought and kept the pigs for the purpose of experimenting 
with food on tliem. Following is the result of the experiment: 
1. While they eat and appear to like apples as tliey eat and ap- 
pear to like anything when they are hungry, they are not neces- 
sary as an aid in digestion, (as they are in man,) nor necessary for 
their perfect thriftiness and development. 2. The essential thing 
in their perfect thriftiness and development is that their food 
shall be soured but not fermented before it is given to them. They 
are created to like soured (not sour like sour apples,) things, 
a sort of garbage cleaner, as Inizzards are created to like the flesh 
of dead animals after it is decayed. If fed before the feed is 
soured let the feed be the best that can be had for them. They 
will eat but little and grow slow and appear stunted and lifeless 
and the tails will hang straight and limp, but if the same feed Is 
soured (not fermented,) before they are fed, they will eat heart- 
ily and grow fast, and their tails will curl clear up to the 
body and they will be as sleek as moles and full of life and vigor. 
It may be well to say for the benefit of those who are not accus- 
tomed to pigs, that those who are. consider a curly tail a sisn of 
thrift. ■ 

For reasons given elsewhere, all animals should have grain. 
Every one accustomed to using horses is aware that they will do 
enough more work by having grain than to more than pay the 
expense of it. The work of cows is to produce milk and they will 
produce enough more by having grain than to more than pay for 
It. Growth in young animals is what work is in old ones and 
they need the same nourishment. It is impossible for anything 
to have the utmost vigor and thriftiness so long as something 
essential to its perfect organization is lacking. 

It is strange that hogs are created so that they do not require 
salt, (a very little can be mixed in their food without any appear- 



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ance of trouble, but they will not touch it of their accord.) while 
all other domestic animals do and can not thrive without it. A 
few years ago one of my neighbors had a fine cow. In the spring 
after she was turner! to grass she did not look well. Her hair 
was harsh, her eyes were dull and she appeared lifeless. I won- 
dered what ailed her. She had had the best of feed and a warm 
stable all winter and was in good grass then, and there was no 
reason why she should not be as lively as ever. She was nat- 
urally lively, bright eyed, and hearty. Finally it occured to me 
that it might be want of salt; the neighbor trusted her care to his 
boys who may not have salted her. So I told him what I had 
been thinl^ing. Pie brought some salt and as soon as she saw 
him with it she rushed across the yard toward him, and when he 
threw it down ate it in one-quarter of the time that it generally 
takes a cow to eat salt and stood longing for more, although she 
had had twice as much as a cow erenerally eats. He thought she 
had better not have more then, but he saw that she had it three 
times a week after that, and in a short time her old life and vigor 
returned. 

No salt should be mixed in the food of any kind of animals. 
No kind will eat more or less than they require if it is kept where 
they can help themselves when they want it. There is a great 
deal of difference in theamount required by each kind of animals. 
Cattle require more than horses, and hens require but little, yet 
they need what they require as bad as animals that require 
more. It does not take much mixed in the food of hens to cause 
disease and death. 

The question arises if unnatural food is the cause of consump- 
tion in man what is the cause of consumption in animals. The 
answer is the same cause. 

All food that is natural for animals is created so that no stalk 
can serve two purposes perfectly. The seed of stalks that are 
intended for hay or fodder is not suitable for grain. The stalks 
that produce grain are not suitable for hay or fodder. There is 
one thing that comes nearer being an exception to this rule than 
any other, that is corn. Corn stalks makes good fodder for cat- 
tle and corn makes good grain, yet neither is perfect. The 
stalks, because they have lost too much of their nutritive power 
in nourishing the grain, the grain because it is too heating. If 
cattle are to be fed for the purpose of putting on fat corn is good 
feed, but to put on fat is not the purpose for which cattle are 



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intended nor the purpose for which they should be fed. The 
primary purpose for which they are intended is to produce milk, 
and that is the purpose for which they should be fed, and for 
that purpose there are other grains that are better, which shows 
that corn is an imperfect grain, which with the fact that there 
is no better fodder for cattle (each kind of animals has its pecul- 
iar liking for some particular kind of fodder and grain and will 
thrive better on that than on any other kind, which kind of 
stalks and grain is best adapted to each kind of animals is not 
yet fully known,) if it is used when it contains the greatest 
amount of nourishment shows that corn is hardly an exception 
to the rule. 

If animals can not thrive on the seed of things that are in- 
tended for fodder or hay, it is impossible for them to use the 
seed of things of which no part is intended for food without 
trouble. No part of flax or cotton are intended for food, and it is 
the use of a part of these unnatural things (sometimes mo- 
lasses and other unnatural things are used) which is the cause of 
consumption in cattle. 

In regard to disease in cattle known as Texas fever. Animals 
are created so that there are certain elements necessary for the 
formation of perfect blood, and consequent perfect organization 
of the system, and when one of these elements is lacking there 
IS imperfect blood and consequent imperfect organ ization of 
the system with weakness if not disease. One of the elements 
necessary for perfect blood in cattle is salt, (hogs are created so 
that salt IS not necessary to form perfect blood for them,) and 
cattle are allowed to run year after year on the southern plain 
without It, which must cause weakness and trouble, but whether 
It goes far enough to cause Texas fever or not is a question. In 
talking with some pioneer farmers about it some of them said: 
halt IS not necessary for cattle. They have got in the habit of 
Uking It from its being given to them for generations, but they 
are just as well off without it. When this country was first set- 
tled the people were too poor to buy salt for cattle and they did 
not have any to amount to anything. One of them said: "Think- 
ing about it puts me in mind of something that I saw once that 
1 never shall forget. A steer that had run all summer in the 
woods without salt was brought up in the fall and given a hand- 
full and I never saw anything eat anything as the steer ate that 
saJt. He dug a hole in the ground and ate it to get every grain 



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there was." Animals do not acquire habits unless taught by 
man. Thej' are created with an instinct that tells them what is, 
and what is not, necessarj^ for their perfect organization, and if 
left to their own accord will not eat anything that is not, nor go 
without anything that is, necessary for their perfect organization. 
There is another thing that possibly may have something to do 
with this disease. Domestic animals may not thrive as well on 
the wild grass of the plains as bulTalos and other wild animals 
which it is natural for. Animals that are created for tame 
domestic animals may require tame grass. Experiments may 
prove that these and possibly other similar things are the cause 
of this disease instead of its being caused by the cattle being 
infected by the animals that are on the surface of the ground 
that are supposed to be the cause of this supposed to be infecti- 
ous disease. 



To the Average f/Lenn of Mature JWIii^d: 



Read and study the book until it is thoroughly understood, 
then if you are so tied to the fashions and customs of the age 
that you cannot test it now, put it away until you are sick. Then 
after the doctors' kind and benevolent manners, soothing- and 
encouraging words and beneflcient and sanitary regulations (the 
most talented and concientious of the profession say that so far as 
drugs are concerned the science of medicine is a failure. Sir 
Astley Cooper the most celebrated English practicioner of his 
age said, "On the whole, more harm than good is done by med- 
ication." Professor Brousais, who was styled the illustrious 
professor of Valdi Grace, said, "I agree that medicine has ren- 
dered to sutfering man the service of offering consolation by ever 
fostering chimerical hopes, but such service is far from placing 
it on a level with other natural sciences. It rather seems to class 
it with astrology, superstition and all kinds of quackery." 
Professor Magcndie, whose writings are in the libraries of nearly 
all physicians, says, "It is especially where medicine is most ac- 
tive that mortality is greatest." Similar statements have been 
made by a great many others of high standing in the profession. 
These statements have been proven to be true by experiments 
made in hospitals where repeated experiments on large numbers 
with different diseases showed that of those who received medi- 
cine a larger per cent, died than of those who received no 
medicine, and that those who received medicine and recovered 
were longer in doing so than those who received no medicine) 
fail to effect a cure, test this system and if you are not too far 
gone you will recover. One such experience is enough for a wise 
man. If you cannot recover call your children around you 
and tell them that notwithstanding you have done everything 
you could to promote health, life is a failure — it is ended long be- 
fore nature has run its course and that you must leave them for- 
ever, so far as this world is concerned, prematurely and unex- 
pectedly. And advise them to try to avoid a similar fate by try- 
ing some other way. 

Very respectfully and deferentially submitted by 

The Author. 



